AUPSY102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Bigram, Parietal Lobe, Logic Puzzle

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Augustana Faculty - Psychology
• Course: AUPSY102
• Professor: Katharine Bailey

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You don"t just perceive objects, you also recognize them and can identify what they are. In chapter 2 a condition known as apperceptive agnosia was introduced. Here patients seem able to see an object"s characteristics, but cannot perceive the object. Patient called d. f. was asked to copy drawings that were in plain view, and then asked to copy from memory. Results show that df could more accurately draw from memory than recognize and organize parts from the picture. Other patients may suffer from associative agnosia where they can see but cannot link what they see to their basic visual knowledge. One patient is introduced to a glove and asked to tell the neurologist what it is, eventually to patient comes to the conclusion that it is a container of some sort that could hold coins for example. Two processes that are responsible for recognition. Bottom-up processing ( data driven ) - effects that are governed by the.